chuck boehner, who is stepping down as house speaker, said he thinks wisconsin representative paul ryan will get the support he needs to become the next speaker. speaker boehner and other members of the house gop leadership also spoke of their egislative agenda. >> today the president has on his desk a vice president national defense authorization bill. the bill provides our troops with the resources they need to keep america safe. it meets the funding levels the president requested, yet the president has vowed to veto it. why? because he wants to stop and spend more money on his domestic agenda. it's time to put our troops first. time to stop playing political games. iranian terrorists soon are going to have access to billions of dollars as a result of the president's nuclear deal. this is no time to block funding for our troops with the critical mission that they have ahead. >> good morning, all. quickly give you a little snap shot of what we have this week. i know we have a lot going on, a lot of other issues you probably want to talk about. there are a couple bills i wapt to highlig

after that, it is speaker boehner or bust. >> chuck, thanks very much. we'll see you for "meet the press" on sunday. all of the capitol chaos and sitdown with bernie sanders, again on sunday morning. >>> in south carolina three more counties have been declared federal disaster areas from the record rainfall. rising rivers are flooding more homes even though the storm moved on days ago. a huge national guard presence remains and a new look at the daring rescues during the worst of it. nbc's gabe guiterrez has the latest. >> reporter: floodwaters reaching rooftops near the south carolina coast. >> the little white boat, that is the only way i got all of the things out of my house. >> reporter: 17 dams breached and 84 at risk. the national guard out in force. this newly released video shows a man pulled to safety from the raging waters. the before and after images reveal the staggering amount of rain that devastated much of the state. all of that water now flowing downstream toward the coast as evacuations are underway. >> do not assume you can wait this ou

boehner? >> yeah, that's what stood out to me, chuck. e the fact that ryan went out of his way to thank boehner a little bit at the beginning and say we're not going to have a repeat of the last two years, we're going to turn the page, it very much was a way for ryan to position himself differently than boehner and sort of an overture, i would say, to the more conservatives in the conference that, look, your voices are going to be heard. i'm going to operate things differently. interestingly enough, while he delivered that message, who was behind him? kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, kathie mcmorris rogers, people who are part of the leadership with john boehner. so it will be interesting to see what ryan does. i expect you'll see changes within the way the house operates, with their steering committees and what not about who can move more forward in the leadership and who has more say. >> and we should remind folks, paul ryan reluctantly came out for the compromise budget deal earlier this morning. perhaps that's the reason he ended up wit

boehner, crying. it's not hard to find those pictures. chuck?i made my loser of the week, kevin mccarthy, for obvious reasons, although i'm sort of rethinking it, now that jonah made that point. my winner of the week based on our discussion of syria is vladimir putin, who once again has stolen a march on the united states, in particular in the west in general and is now exercising tremendous influence over a region of the world where russia had been driven out only a few years back. >> charles? >> my loser is john kerry, because he didn't win the nobel peace prize. imagine what that means. this is a committee that over the generations has awarded some of the worst, silliest and most appalling prizes ever. one to arafat, among others. even a committee as naive as this is denying the honor to kerry. it tells you how even those norwegians believe that the iran deal is useless and self-diluted. that's quite a blow. the winner of the week is the house freedom caucus, known to some as the suicide caucus, but i'm not going to judge on this one. they sl

chuck, thanks very much. >> you got it. >>> a new era in washington as congressman paul ryan officially succeeds john boehner as the new speaker of the house, second in line to the presidency. it's a big generational shift, as well. ryan becomes the first speaker born in the 1970s. can the one-time vp candidate finally break the logjam and get congress to work? nbc's kelly o'donnell is on the hill where ryan said today, the house is broken. >> reporter: today the path to change in washington crossed a generation. outgoing house speaker john boehner ends a quarter century in congress. no longer bashful about tears. >> i leave the way i started, just a regular guy, humbled by the chance to do a big job. >> reporter: at 45, with school age kids, paul ryan becomes the youngest speaker since 1869. but this hand-over comes from a deep conflict within their own republican party. a tea party wing that resisted boehner at every turn and starts on fragile footing with speaker ryan. he faces conservative demand on no action on immigration and more fight over ideology like blocking funds for planned parenthood. >> we are not settling scor

boehner, crying. it's not hard to find those pictures. chuck?ell, i made my loser of the week, kevin mccarthy, for obvious reasons, although i'm sort of rethinking it, now that jonah made that point. my winner of the week based on our discussion of syria is vladimir putin, who once again has stolen a march on the united states, in particular in the west in general and is now exercising tremendous influence over a region of the world where russia had been driven out only a few years back. >> charles? >> my loser is john kerry, because he didn't win the nobel peace prize. imagine what that means. this is a committee that over the generations has awarded some of the worst, silliest and most appalling prizes ever. one to arafat, among others. even a committee as naive as this is denying the honor to kerry. it tells you how even those norwegians believe that the iran deal is useless and self-diluted. that's quite a blow. the winner of the week is the house freedom caucus, known to some as the suicide caucus, but i'm not going to judge on this one. th

. >> senator chuck schumer saying to outgoing speaker john boehner go big before you go home. what if he were to put immigration on the floor over the next three weeks? >> it would be a convulsion certainly in the republican conference because they are divided. it is a huge division in the party. and i don't think it would pass. >> you don't? democrats wouldn't support it? >> there are just too many pitfalls along the way. >> i'd love it see him put a small bill on the floor, a bill that had the dream act in it, legalize these kids who grew up in the united states, and do something about agricultural workers on a temporary basis. increase with reform the number of high-skill h1b visas. you don't have to pass comprehensive immigration reform because it won't pass but you'd do something. i'd love to see him try. >> i agree with mort on that. that's a good idea. but look, some big immigration bill pushed through at the last minute? look, up want to wind up with an immigration bill that most of the country can support, that it doesn't just create more argument and discord in the c

parts of chuck's interview that you didn't see on sunday. that's just ahead. plus, is speaker boehnerding a budget breakthrough that could help paul ryan's path ahead? might get news of a deal tonight. stick around. things. like limiting where you earn bonus cash back. why put up with that? but the quicksilver card from capital one likes to keep it simple. real simple. i'm talking easy like-a- walk-in-the-park, nothing-to-worry-about, man-that-feels-good simple. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. it's a simple question. what's in your wallet? >> hundreds are dead and thousands more are injured after a massive earthquake struck south asia. the 7.5 quake flattened buildings across pakistan and in the northeast region of afghanistan at about 2:00 local time. shock waves could be felt as far away as india. nbc producer waj khan has more from pakistan where he felt the quake. >> at least 200 dead in pakistan, with a thousand confirmed injuries. at least 70 confirmed dead in afghanistan with 300 injuries. aftershocks are still happening in islama b

boehner had not been emotional, but today no surprise. reporter: yeah. on this day you bet. dagen: peter barnes down in washington for us. we go back to ford and chuck who are still standing by. ford, is the party chaos for the republicans in the house over? >> well, it's over for a little while because basically john boehner as he likes to say cleared the barn of the question is whether or not paul ryan will be success in changing the house. he changed the house because we just threw the old guard out. now we have generational change. for paul ryan to be successful as speaker, largely will hinge on whether or not republicans win white house in 2016. paul ryan sees himself as perfectionist in jack kemp mold. he won't see himself as success unless he gets entitlement reform and tax reform through. that is how paul ryan views the world. dagen: chuck, you have to wonder, what the freedom caucus does. you had majority of that faction of the party getting on board with paul ryan moving up into the speaker's job but will they play ball in months to come. >> i grew up in east texas you have a fire ant mound and it looks calm until you stick a stick in it a

host: chuck schumer saying to ,utgoing speaker john boehner what if he were to do it in the next twoeeks? guest: there would be a convulsion and i don't think it would pass. host: democrats would not supported? guest: they -- there are just too many pitfalls. guest: what i would like to see is put a small bill on the floor, a bill that had the dream act in it. legalize his kids who grew up in the united states. do something about agricultural workers on a temporary basis. , the numberk reform of high skill these us -- these is -- visas. you don't have to pass comprehensive immigration reform because it won't pass, but you do something. guest: i agree with him on that, but look, some big immigration bill at the last minute, you almost look -- wind up with an immigration bill that most of the country can support? you can't do it by rushing something through at the end of october. host: the book, "jack kemp: the bleeding-heart conservative who ," and theerica authors here to talk about the debate then and debate now. andn in california, independent. you are next. caller: good morning. y

boehner says he will remain in place until the republicans are ready to vote on a new speaker. >>> speaking of politics chuck schumer is taking a gun control and, unveiling new legislation and calling on americans to speaker mines. >> we've had tragedy after tragedy. seems almost routine. month after month, after month, so if the president said it change unless people raise their voices and let washington hear how strongly they feel. >> schumer's push for new gun safety legislation focuses on making back on checks more effective and putting a stop to gun trafficking. he says 95% of guns used in of-state. >>> a thomas quits making it clear to anyone who has questions about her political ambitions, she's not running for mayor. >> the speculation continues. and i am not running for mayor in 2017. >> moscow with is the founder -- moskowitz has been at odds over the de blasio expansion. she is also a former city councilmember. >>> quick look at wall street right now, stocks extend a lucrative crowd -- pushing the investigators -- investors watch the fed's every move, expected rate hike may be in jeopardy because

chuck yesterday. we know he doesn't want this job. you never know what could happen. anything could happen. john boehner could hang on longer. the debt limit, debt ceiling limit as you pointed out. the walter jones letter you pointed to, i first heard about it last night on rachel maddow's show. he put out a letter that was really shocking to everyone saying if anyone who is running for speaker has anything in their past and he himself cited the example of newt gingrich and bob livingston, both of whom stepped down under pressure. bob livingston after only a day or so when he was replacing newt gingrich, saying if anyone has a skeleton in their closet, even referring to card gyames or things that happen after 5:00. no one knew what he was alluding to but it certainly set off a lot of gossip. we don't know if that's the case here or if that was the case about someone else who was potentially in the race. who are the other candidates besides chaffetz who might have been going up? of course the majority leader candidates, that's the separate race that was to follow. that was pretty much a brawl. >> reporter: so the only declare

chuck, this is really -- >> look, here's what i'm pretty confident happened here. there was a bunch of conservatives going wait a minute, we got rid of boehner and you're giving us boehner 2.0. mccarthy would have been. if you are frustrated with boehner, mccarthy wasn't the answer. what i think happened is you had some conservatives so intent on making sure mccarthy wasn't the replacement that they went to another level of whisper campaign. they went to another level of -- look, we all know there was another thing going on and you can call it a whisper campaign, call it whatever, and that is what was sort of the final -- i think mccarthy, the benghazi comments is what made him incredibly vulnerable. add in the fact that conservatives never really were like what are you doing here, you're just promoting so the goal was how do you get rid of him. the fastest way was to create this whisper campaign. i think that's what happened here. it is not the reason. it just became a tactic. >> mccarthy folks knew that they were going to be boehner 2. they knew they were going to go through the same kind of tired exercise that boehner had to go through. t

chuck. >> congressman, let me start with you, you're a member of the freedom caucus. what is it that you want and what is it that speaker boehner, kevin mccarthy, and eric cantor haven't delivered. >> well, they all ran on a pledge to america and they, just like your 72% of the folks out there in the real world, say we make these promises when we run but then when we get up here we're called unrealistic by the washington establishment and the bubble up here. what we want is what the american people want. we have $19 trillion in debt, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. all federal revenues will be spent in 11 years on just entitlement programs and interest on the debt. there will be not one one dollar for the military, education, transportation, and all of running government. so the american people want us to make progress on that. plus, president obama when i came in last year in november, we had the unconstitutional amnesty, our lap said we're going to fight tooth and nail on that thing. it's unkotional. then overreach on all sort -- dodd/frank, epa regulation, a bad iran deal. the people say make the case for us. twhaes w

chuck todd this sunday. be sure to watch that. meet the press this sunday. still ahead the changing of the guard on thrill. emotional day. >> please join me in saying one last time thank you, speaker boehner. >> we will look back at john boehner's rise to power and how he lost it coming up. why pause a spontaneous moment to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30-tablet trial. well, right now you can get 15

chuck. >> fair enough. thank you, luke. >>> so what will ryan's demands mean for unity in the gop and what about a plan b if those demands can't be met? well, don't ask speaker boehner what if he doesn't decide to get in? >> don't know. >> joined by republican strategist and an msnbc contributor, steve let's talk about this a minute. what if the freedom caucus sticks to their guns and says, we're not going to sign on to your demands on this, and he walks? then what? >> chaos. pure and simple. great damage to the republican party at a presidential level and dispositive of the fact that maybe the party can't govern, can't even accomplish the most basic ministerial functions, which is the first business of a majority of course, choosing a speaker. but the question is, with regard to the freedom caucus and ryan, who's going to back down? because both sides are asserting conditions. >> right. >> the conditions that were imposed on kevin mccarthy led him to exit the speaker's race. he simply said, i'm not going to surrender control of the speaker's authority with regard to appointments, from the rules committee on down. he wasn't going it be a conditional speaker of the h

chuck todd. >> i was glad to see this. paul ryan raised held about how john boehner and the republican leadership should haved another one of these bills down everybody's throats. that's what they need. they need a guy that's going to engage everybody. what we don't need. >> no, we don't need it. >> it's just like, i think we have to see this contract. >> it's going to be over soon at some point but we've got to be polite until then. >> very polite. >> we haven't talked about the arrest, we haven't talked about the rehab. >> the groping. >> we have talked about the groping in the past. we've stopped talking about the groping but it's not to stop. i got to tell you he makes lose uncomfortable. all right, first here's bill karens. >> i love you guys. maybe a little too much. >> all right. let's let this wurch go. a rainy soaking windy day on p tap. we could use the rainfall. for your travels this afternoon, they're not the best. the green schoes you the rain moving from areas of wisconsin back through the ohio valley. a lot of the mid-atlantic to the northeast is where the heavy rains end up. we're looking at the possibility

chuck, both publicly and privately -- and when i say publicly and privately, that's the same thing -- we need leaders who will honor the promises that men and women have made to us. >> if you're glad john boehner is leaving, how come you don't call out mitch mcconnell? >> listen, at the end of the day -- >> he is your leader. >> at the end of the day it depends on where the votes are in the conference. mitch has the votes to remain as majority leader. >> i'm going to read you quotes from your fellow republicans. senator lamar alexander said this about you. "in kindergarten you learn to work well together and play by the rules. another thing you learn in kindergarten is to respect one another." senator orrin hatch "squabbling and sanctimony have no place among colleagues in the u.s. senate." john mccain, "i would never contemplate going to the floor of the senate impugning the integrity of another senator. just not what we do here." and, of course, speaker boehner called you a false prophet and another word i won't say on sunday morning television. how do you lead a republican party when orrin hatch, lamar alexander, john mccain, john boehner, these are well-respected men, think this lowly of y